Cinema: Follow That Mothball

The Honeymoon Machine (Avon; MGM) is the Hollywood machine in a rare
moment of felicitous clank, turning out the slick, quick, funny film
for which it was designed. Among the astonishingly lifelike moving
parts are: Steve McQueen, a sailor (sailors are dependably hilarious);
Jack Mullaney, a sailor and a Southerner (Southerners used to be
hilarious); and Jim Hutton. a missile scientist (scientists never were very funny, but
Hutton is also a man in love, and thus hilarious). The three of them
decide to become wealthy at a Venice casino, using as their good-luck...